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Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers: 2010.

Quinn, Mary Ellen (author).

As the new school year gets under way, our annual “Best Bets” list features titles we reviewed in the past 12 months that are targeted specifically for students from the elementary- through high-school levels. For more good bets, Booklist Online subscribers can use Advanced Search to find adult reference books recommended for young adults.

Each entry provides a profile of the president from his early days through retirement, highlighting key accomplishments. Students will be engaged by the layout and numerous images, time lines, and maps.

Repackaging selected content from the larger Animal and Plant Anatomy(2006), this highly illustrated resource offers students a comprehensive overview of the inner workings of the systems of a variety of organisms, primarily plants and animals.

The authors are all sportswriters for young readers (two have written for Sports Illustrated for Kids) and definitely convey an enthusiasm for their subject. The definitions of baseball terms are probably the most useful entries in the set.

Articles were drawn from the 11-volume Business and Industry, which was published in 2004. For the single-volume version, bibliographies were replaced and a number of articles, tables, charts, and graphs were revised.

This colorful and fact-packed book is not only informative but well organized. Sections cover “The Ancient World,” “The Medieval World,” “Exploration and Empire,” and “The Modern World,” and each section contains 15 or 16 maps.

This set offers substantial articles (around 30 pages) on each president and contains many comparisons that make the articles relevant to life today. Another unique feature is the discussion of each president’s impact.

Covering a wide range of topics on human physiology, sexual behaviors, sexual health, relationships, legal issues, and more, this resource will be well used and browsed because there is nothing else comparable.

These volumes present two different types of information: an explanation of the various scientific processes that pertain to weather and climate, and a discussion of the specific ways that weather and climate impact human life and the world we live in.

The strength of this volume is the information regarding the election process and the executive branch. The first section provides essays on the presidency that could launch great classroom discussions and research papers.